Washington portrait, rare clocks spring forward in Fontaine’s auction March 25

English triple fuse animated bracket clock having a dial arch with an animated scene of a seated violinist playing, a dancing man in the center (est. $25,000-$35,000). Fontaine’s Auction Gallery image

 

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A Seth Thomas No. 8 office double-dial calendar clock with exceptional finish and in excellent condition, and a late 18th / early 19th century English triple fusee animated bracket clock that plays a selection of four different tunes on the hour, are expected top lots in Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s Antique & Fine Arts Auction, scheduled for Saturday, March 25. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.

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